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Tax ID Fraud is Taxing on Financial Institutions

Abrigo

Understanding tax ID fraud FinCrime professionals looking to prevent tax ID fraud, first need to understand the fundamentals of what is happening and their best recourse for prevention. Takeaway 1 Fraudsters file illegitimate tax returns early, hoping people wait to submit their legitimate ones.

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Is Small Business Lending Facing a ‘Moment of Reckoning?’

Gonzobanker

Financial institutions that want to play in the small business lending sandbox need to bring their digital toys. But how can community banks successfully compete with big banks and fintechs that are spending billions on their digital lending capabilities? In a recent American Banker. In a recent American Banker. Source: DeBanked ).

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Food for Thought: A Policy on Credit Exceptions

Abrigo

unsecured lending is bad rather than unsecured lending should only be extended to high pass risk rated credit). and property tax payments. The following is an example of how I would address the structural exception of non-recourse lending.

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DoD issues MLA interpretive rule; Ballard to hold Sept. 20 webinar

CFPB Monitor

The Department of Defense (DoD) has issued an interpretive rule to assist the industry in complying with its July 2015 final rule amending the Military Lending Act’s implementing regulation. Therefore, the latter loans would qualify for the exemption so long as they meet the regulatory requirements for exclusion (i.e.,

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CFPB releases Section 1071 SBREFA outline

CFPB Monitor

The activity-based exemption under consideration would exempt financial institutions with small business lending activity that is less than one of three possible threshold levels: originations of at least 25 loans or $2.5 economy through payment of taxes or use of American products, materials, or labor.

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242 Startup Failure Post-Mortems

CB Insights

Three years later, for many, it is now rightly recognised as perhaps the most important pillar of our health and wellness, alongside exercise and diet. BTCjam, a P2P marketplace launched in 2012 to borrow and lend using bitcoin, announced the company has made “the difficult decision” to close up shop, according to multiple news sources.

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